Clay Jones on the dismay conservatives are expressing over the release of Sgt.Bowe Bergdahl from five years as a POW.Apparently, letting Qatar act as a go-between to set up a prisoner exchange is not, in their minds, as noble as breaking an international arms embargo to sell weapons to Iran and then using the money […]
I mentioned recently that I’m trying to avoid TLDNR Syndrome. Today offers a chance, since a lot of cartoonists have served up strips that require little elaboration.Much as I contend that a good strip makes you laugh because it made you think, there are ones that make you laff, which is different. They still raise […]
The other day, I started my reflections on the Santa Barbara shootings with a cartoon drawn in the wake of the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. Here, Steve Breen makes a more pointed comment on a massacre that happened just a few years later.And so here we sit, three decades later, still asking the […]
Dan Thompson strikes a nerve with today’s Brevity.I noted the other day that Barnes & Noble, for those of us outside the megalopolis where it is apparently staffed by people who know how a book operates, is not a bookstore so much as it is just another faceless Big Box, and it’s the faceless Big […]
Edison Lee takes on a nearly impossible challenge: Coming up with a toy that is more ridiculous and tasteless than what’s already out there.I’m so old. (How old are you?)I’m so old that I can remember when Children’s Television Workshop was about education. Well, I guess it still is.Behold Elmo’s Cell Phone, doing for real […]
Let’s go back 33 years, with this Jim Mazzotta commentary on the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan.John Hinckley was not a massacre shooter, but he operated in something of the same arena: Attempting a grand public gesture, at which, as Mazzotta’s cartoon suggests, he succeeded.He only wanted to attract the attention of one person, but that […]
Monty strikes at a male obsession appropriate for a three-day weekend. After a couple days of not having to shave, the question comes up of maybe growing some facial hair.Which, by the way, doesn’t relieve you of the need to shave, since nobody’s face grows hair only in the mustache/beard regions.You still have to shave […]
I had planned to link this morning to whoever filed a full report from last night’s NCS Awards Dinner before turning in, but all I’m finding is Twitter updates.So, having flipped the multi-sided coin, I’ll send you to Alan Gardner’s feed for the full listing plus 144-character commentary.I’m sure there will be more complete coverage […]
Okay, granted, “high” would be a bad idea. We all know “high” would be a bad idea.But maybe if you set it on “low.”Baby Blues plays on a spectrum of issues with this simple gag, because there’s substantial scholarship to indicate that kids benefit from their father’s horseplay. Not sure suspending the baby from a ceiling […]
It’s kind of flattering to see my numbers take a small but noticeable dip during the Reubens, which are going on in San Diego as we speak. I guess.The flattery part, I mean. I’m quite certain that the cartoonists are gathering. And for those of us who can’t be there, Ruben Bolling has profiled some […]
Darrin Bell isn’t the first cartoonist to address the VA delay issues, but his take is admirable for a couple of reasons besides the graphic chops.One is that “death” here is somewhat metaphorical, and while the media jury has already delivered its verdict, the trial on that is still in progress.That someone in Stage 4 […]
Bob Englehart with a take on the Chinese corporate espionage case that stands out not only because he makes a good point but because he fails to make a bad one.The Prime Directive here being that we praise the good stuff rather than ripping on the not-so-good, I had despaired of saying anything about the […]
What better, on the day after my blogging site goes down, than this delightful Jen Sorensen rant about Adobe’s toxic lock on graphics and layout?Not only does it continue the theme of our vulnerability to other people’s technical problems, but continues the insights into inner workings. (If you missed yesterday’s posting, please scroll down — […]
I’m just on the point (fingers crossed/wood knocked upon) of having a client sign off on a project that has been a lot of fun, a 14-chapter children’s historical fiction serial about a young fellow going off from Lachine, Quebec, into the high country as a voyageur in 1800.Collaborating artist for the project has been […]
(Freshly Squeezed)There was a joke going around the Soviet Union, back when such a place existed, about an attempt by the leader to burnish the image of the central government.I’m sure the role of leader in the joke was as quickly re-cast to remain current as the role itself was recast in reality, as that […]